Greater Downtown Miami Flooded With Nearly 2-Year Supply Of Condos For Sale Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

Sellers Ask 47 Percent Premium For Condos Listed For Sale In Greater Downtown Miami

DOWNTOWN MIAMI (May 12, 2020) - Nearly 3,450 condo units are formally listed for sale in the Greater Downtown Miami market of Miami-Dade County in South Florida amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from Condo Vultures® Realty LLC.

Based on condo sales of about 147 units monthly in the first three months of 2020, Greater Downtown Miami now has nearly a 24-month supply of units available for purchase in the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach at the start of the traditional Summer Buying Season, according to the report based on data from the Southeast Florida MLS Matrix.

A balanced market is generally considered to have about six months of supply. More months of condo supply listed for sale suggests a buyer’s advantage and less months typically indicates a seller’s advantage in the market.

It is worth noting this report only tracks those Greater Downtown Miami condos formally listed for sale. The report does not factor in the nearly 47,750 new condo units currently in the development pipeline east of Interstate 95 in the tricounty South Florida region, according to CraneSpotters.com.

In this new COVID-19 pandemic era, numerous questions exist about how the South Florida residential real estate market will perform going forward, both in the short- and medium-term periods. After a typical start to the new year, the South Florida residential real estate market began to change dramatically at the end of the first quarter of 2020. 

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a "state of emergency to create a pathway to obtain funding and resources to stop the spread of COVID-19" on March 9, 2020, the South Florida residential real estate market continued to function, albeit with changes for safety that included social distancing and a push for virtual tours instead of buyer actually visiting properties.  

Nearly a month later on April 3, 2020, DeSantis instituted a 30-day "statewide stay-at-home order" that effectively shut down the Florida economy but in doing so deemed residential and commercial real estate businesses "essential services," according to an industry press report.

Despite the ability to transact real estate during the "stay-at-home order," it is unclear how many buyers have been willing to view properties - either in person or virtually - in hopes of purchasing residences. It is also unclear how many sellers have opened their properties to potential buyers given the contagiousness of the COVID-19 virus. 

Once the "stay-at-home order" was finally lifted on May 4, 2020 for nearly all of the state - excluding the tricounty South Florida region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach (which was reopened on May 11, 2020) until further notice - the Florida economy was thought to be in recession like much of the United States. 

This being said, about 128 Greater Downtown Miami condo units are under contract and waiting to transact - or pending - at an average price of about $595,736 each or $421 per square foot, according to the statistics.

The average asking price of a Greater Downtown Miami condo currently listed for sale is about $772,050 per unit. This works out to an average asking price of about $529 per square foot, according to the data compiled by CondoVulturesRealty.com.

In the first three months of 2020, the average transaction price of a Greater Downtown Miami condo was nearly $524,375 or about $383 per square foot, according to the statistics.

This means the current asking price of a Greater Downtown Miami condo listed for sale is more than 47 percent higher than the average transaction price achieved on a per-unit basis and about 38 percent higher than the average transaction price on a per-square-foot basis between January and March of this year.

In the first quarter of 2020, the sellers who were able to unload their units needed about 167 days to transact a Greater Downtown Miami condo listed for sale. The current Days-On-The-Market average for a Greater Downtown Miami condo listed for sale is about 280, according to the statistics.

The number of Days-On-The-Market for the condo units currently under contract in Greater Downtown Miami is about 174, according to the statistics.

CondoVulturesRealty.com is a licensed Florida brokerage that specializes in assisting buyers and tenants in value-oriented condo acquisitions and leases in the tricounty region of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach.

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